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tintin %tai5 peat l effet HENRY HENLEY, SIIOALS, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 113,430, dated April 4, 187-1.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOI-CRlMPERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent `and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern.-

struction andarrangement of a boot-crimp, as will be hereinafter fullyset forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a side view, and

Figure 2, an edge View of my boot-crimp.

My boot-crimp is composed of two parts, the clamp and the saddle. v

The clamp consists of two pieces, A A, of wood, tightened together' bymeans of a thumb-nut a, on a screw-bolt, b, which passes through the twopieces of wood. 1

The saddle consists of two jaws B B, held together by means ot' twospring bars G G, and to which jaws the two pieces D l) of leather arefirmly secured.

The peculiar shape of the parts composing the saddle are fully shown inthe accompanying drawing. The clamp A A clamps the saddle together at apoint just above the angle of the crimping-board.

, The leather toV be crimped is laid in proper shape on thecrimping-board G, which board sits upon its heel, and when being pressedtogether by the clamp tightly, the lsaddle is drawn down over the board,wit-l1 the leather or boot front on the board and under the saddle.

When a strong pressure is exerted by the power of a lever on the jaws ofthe saddle, it draws over the board while the clamp slips up, all thetime retaining its position at the top of the board; hence there is avery severe rubbing process over this leather-to be l crimped, and thetighter. the clamp is the harder the saddle rubs over the boot front.rlhis rubbing is what takes' ont the wrinkles from the leather.

, 'lhe mechanism for drawing the saddle down over the crimping-board Ihave not deemed it necessary to represent here. It consists of a frameiirmly secured to the wall, in which frame is a slide to which two hooksare attached, said hooks catching inthe center of the jaws B B,A anddraw 4thesaddle down, the slide being forced down by a lever suitablyarranged. Having thus fully described my invention,

Wh'atI claim as new', and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.V

The boot-crimp herein described, composed of the clamp A A, and thesaddle formed of the jaws B B, spring bars C C, crimping-board G, andleather pieces D' D, all constructed and. arranged to operate sub,-stantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l atiix my signaturein presence'of two witnesses.

- HENRY HENLEY.

Witnesses THOMAS BROWN, J AMES T. Roenes.

